Spanish in Modern Philippines : Essays in recovering the classical language of the Philippines

ISBN-13: 9786202007689 / Angielski

Isaac Donoso Jimenez

Opis

Distance... perspective allows analyzing passed events with historiographical insights fitted within current times and ideologies. Philippine historiography has been undertaking deep efforts towards autonomy since amid 20th century. Yet, the hermeneutic representation of Philippine Human Science is in implementation. Given the fact of the perspective in time, and the current state of historiography and anthropology, it is time to move to the next step to reduce the gap between us and our past, and to conceive the construction of Philippine cultural identity as an empirical process, evolving step after step, without jumping and neglecting stages. This is not a book of history, but cultural history, aiming to provide common Filipinos tools to reflect the diachronic development of their contemporary culture, and by doing so to liberate the thoughts towards critical thinking in Human Science. Any culture is essentially pure. Human being uses different cultural elements to create his conception of the World in both, spiritual and material domains. The construction of a national identity is a political process in which ideology determines a specific understanding of the cultural process.

O autorze

Donoso, Isaac
Isaac Donoso is Doctor in Philology (2011) and Master in Humanities (2003), Hispanic Philology (2003), Islamic Studies (2008) and Musicology (2014). Visiting faculty for three years at the Philippine Normal University in Manila, currently he teaches at the University of Alicante in Spain.